You start with one tent and a few settlers, carving out your territory piece by piece in the empty wilds.
Assign tasks—gathering, fishing, cooking, exploring, hauling—set priorities, and let your settlers act based on skills, stamina, and pathfinding.
Deliver resources back to storage, unlock new lands—forests, rivers, highlands—and gradually build farms, quarries, trading posts, walls, and crystal wards.

Expansion does not mean safety. Settlers need food and water; overpopulation brings crowding; drought, storms, monster tides, and traveling merchants constantly reshape your plans. Periodic three-card event choices force you to weigh risk against reward.
Explore the fog and ancient ruins, collect crystals and perform sacrifices to upgrade your territory, exchange for development resources, and even delay the world's collapse. As black fog creeps closer day by day, you must contract your defenses and hold the last sanctuary within your walls and wards.

The world will eventually fall, but your efforts are not in vain. Survivors, population, wealth, and development determine your final rating—and you may inherit a spark from the ruins to begin the next round of wilderness survival.